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The budget ultraportable trend showed no signs of slowing this week, as Acer’s Aspire One hit US shelves priced from $379. Meanwhile, sources close to Dell’s suppliers tipped the company’s upcoming ‘E’ netbook as carrying a mere $299 price tag, and perhaps even landing as early as next month.
As for grown-up notebooks, Intel finally made [...]
Things are not looking good for NVIDIA and ATI, as they face a class-action suit in California over accusations of price fixing and colluding to keep GPU prices artificially buoyant. In the most damning piece of evidence so far heard by the court, presiding Judge William Alsup read out a 2002 email from NVIDIA’s senior VP [...]
ATI’s latest cards are out, and they are getting some major attention. These are supposed to be the cards that really put ATI back on the map in the GPU race. Personally I thought that the 38xx series were pretty good, however, I’ve got the new 4850, so we’ll see how it stacks up against [...]
The official existence of AMD’s ATI Radeon HD 4870 chips has been confirmed, with a number of graphics cards using the latest-gen GPU arriving today. Diamond Multimedia announced their HD 4870 card, which occupies two slots, uses the PCIE 2.0 interface and is fitted with 512MB of GDDR5 memory. It runs at 725MHz while the [...]
One of AMD’s upcoming ATI Radeon video cards using the RV770 GPU, first tipped in May, has slipped out early and delivered some details into the hands of HotHardware. The ATI Radeon HD 4850 features 800 stream processors packed onto a 55nm GPU with a 625MHz clock speed. As expected, there’s 512MB of 993MHz GDDR3 RAM [...]
AMD can hardly contain their excitement with the news that their FireStream 9250 processor has broken the 1 teraflop barrier. Fitted to the FireStream 9250 graphics card, it handles not only video output but can work in tandem with the main CPU to accelerate complex calculations. And unlike its 9170 predecessor, it [...]
AMD has announced an update for one of its ATI Radeon dual-head graphics cards, especially optimizing it for use with Apple’s Mac Pro system. The HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition has a 56-bit 512MB GDDR4 frame buffer memory and 320 stream processors, together with two DVI outputs for plugging in some large-scale Cinema HD monitors.
As well as the Puma platform, AMD have also launched their ATI XGP eXternal Graphics Platform at Computex. In effect an external PCI Express 2.0 video card in a standalone enclosure, it relies on a self-latching, easy-connecting PCIe 2.0 cable and, once hooked up, can run up to 4 displays. It also comes with HDMI with [...]
ASUS continued their assault on the budget computing market this week, with the Eee PC 900 finally launching in the US while its Intel Atom powered sibling the PC 901 broke cover. We also saw a live photo of the Eee Box B202, a desktop version. It looks as though the rumors of a separate [...]
AMD is set to replace a large percentage of its current video card range starting from next month, according to a recent leak, as the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series supersedes the existing 3800 series. Key improvements will be the inclusion of AMD’s GPGPU physics processing, hitherto limited to the high-end cards, and improved HD [...]
